Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1882, Page 7

yh ek Ce ays eee aS THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1 Many of the fashionable rugs nowadays are of manat and although woven in imi- 1882—DOUBLE SHEET ABOUT CARPETS AND RUGS. WHAT MEN MAY WEAR. FAMILY SUPPLIES. ‘and medium close. A fine, wale diagonal is sup- PROPOSALS STEAMERS. &e._ — the among those who can SS = = eee —=—= Fhe Fast Days cf Immovable Ploer | tation of those imported fromthe east oan be | Severn Suits Necessary for Daily Use. [pepe ito the superstition, centuries old, | (JLARET! CLARET! CLARET! | JPROPOSALS FOR STATIONERY. See naan me He eon pang ps them by ‘Gone Mica that dress suits must be of finished black . - Posr Orrick Dezanrursr. } AY, st seven 9 WHAT woprRs mrnoveweNTs HAVE Bone Por | brightness of color. Tt seems as arMODY | wEARIXG ONE SUIT UNTIL TF 18 woRN ovT—a | Cloth. = FASEISGTOR, D.C., May" inva THE NEALTH—PAINTED FLOORS, THEIR aD- | Of astern design coloring would never be fully | "YE o. oy cotone we onooes Pn ee ae jos eas Sabeemrtenive ed on | USE SWHINE, OCLOCK MON TRURSDAT: Chapel Point and beens a et) SS ae ee ae pi Aaeasersrr cmap ong jorted | PREVENT TROUSERS BAGGING AT THE xxRgo— igloos Ta toad THREE BOTTLES OPER DOLE FOR JUNE FiGuTy. ae for fursishing. Stationery oF | Si dava: Stowe” anit Montage ur — os ‘the ‘Office for one year from 5 a from Smyrna, are very effective, but alittle too| THE sTYLes. Come near me, let me lay my hand CLARET, Wich ge rae GR GRADES OF | 1882. items and ecti- a EE ag prank the WY. ‘Times obtrusive In color, it being now generally 5 — Once more upon thy brow, POTTED MEATS, PICKLES. OLICES BANNED ett forme of cipher oe ee Sg nm igre 'o* inform xtion apply to Tn one of Hans Andersen's most charming nized that floor coverings have no business fo | *‘ctara De Vero” in Ctnctnnati Gazetio, ‘And lot me whisper in thine ear OYSTERS, SARDINES, &., &¢., for and Ex- | [atine then to, will befurishod on application 10 this | payay fairy tales the happy possessor of the “Clogs of. ter etantuathe ecenthes erased should at. | _,7H¢ true art of dressing well, an authority ‘The lips that breathe these trembitag words GEO. E. KENNEDY & SON, hould be addressed! to the First Assistant V oFAGERs To EUROPE. ‘Fortune™ gained the power to transport him- | tract no particular attention. states, is to make a careful toilet every day. Will soon be cold in death, m5 No. 1209 F STREET NORTHWEST, | Buayuasier General, an T. 0. HOWE, = pe particular attenti And thy dear cheek can feel no more ‘Stationery. = annie self at will to any period of thne or place of | A room Is badly furnished, if the first thing | The man who has once formed this habit findsin ‘Their warm and loving breath. "ANNIS 189 RYE WHISKY, m4-th&m, 8 Postmaster General abode he might desire. Like a good many | that strikesa person upon veges it 1s the car- | it an ever recurring pleasure; it ceases to be a “ thee; God only . pRoposats. eal aun a se Bag a ng * ‘other people, the man who came into possession ss era aed wen ean edd Coe trouble and consumes no more time than to Fie lose Note yon! Porn UPPER TEN RYE WHISKY, ciieusicems yorrns re the Agents for st, District of the clogs was in a state of chronic discon- e adaits is parterre of inflllant flowers ienenk dress carelessly. The man who buys one suit + How I have shuddered thus to tread OLD STOCK RYE WHISKY, or Tue Disraicr oF Coummera, f INMAN STEAMSHIP co. bing one of those tattating individeels | the drawing-room carpets or to tread upon trees | for all occasions ts never well dressed and See Ee eas CLARETS, CHAMPAGNES, SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at the ofice, | Partice proposing to visit Europe can obtain allie- Tired nothings 1 Modern hea tmes | whose branches shelter humming binds. ‘The | almost invariably “seedy.” When some ‘The Joys the blessed fi ees ene, JUNE FIEGE, for furnishing suprise totbeverous | mit3m ” o.w. ROTELER & BON. ag Reve esthetic movement has had one good result in| state occasion compels him to get into his| And yeti falter while I cast DION PONCE en PORT | branches of fhe District government. for the year end- | Oo oa chon aTION LINE. — the glamour of history. The clogs, | Modifying Hearieta, and greens, and if we are | venerable old dress sult, the last state of that eet ne Ae ae EE. "Eheraston ssnaten nl Sein wit toteredea| On eer Ome aTION mber. played an important part in the | Sometimes inclined to wish that the favorite | nan ig worse than the first. He feels awk. I see thee bowed before me here, LONDON PUNCH, HUB PUNCH. | upon application at Room 17, Morrison Building, 454 and after MARCH 19th the STEAMER m of tke. melancholy mortal by sud- | Colors were a little less somber, 1¢ is @ fault in| Tos ccm uncomfartabie. andl; Iona’ aa tt he In bitterness and tears, B. W. REED’S SONS, aa Wee ee ee EULere STEPHENSON S nsporting him, in oné of his retrospec- ret ease pi cbisoatie fas ke SE: BBY SANG, MB CAE" had hired. hile (oloblios ‘Wom ein unaectakertor Banas ae sees still m5, 1216 F STREET NORTHWEST. sain ok Super GAE Ray, | Seclock pm., for ‘and River Landiigs, ! Fears into the past. A “Neutral tints are to be preferred, and ifthe | $5 per night. The only way to overcome this Young, tender forms Will cling to thee, ALIFORNIA CLARET. Fen the uperintendent of Proverty. | all River Freight net be Prepaid. very few hours’ practical experience of the life wails of a room are dingy, or there 18 any other | awkward fecling of belng “dressed up” is to Perhaps will miss my tone, C ’ PPOPOsALs. » arrive ip Washington every Satunlay night. Shen lived restored a cheerful appreciation of | To .50 for wishing to imgodaoe e iittle ‘bright freanently change the business suit for a demi- And thongh they may hot share thy grief, IE i A STEPHENSON & BRO., Acexra, bis own surroundings which was well worth the ness, the coloring should be in the border of the | toilet—a half dress suit. A knowledge of what Thou wilt not feel alone, < = misery through whieh it was gained. manner if we b $4.00 PER pozEN. ml6-6m 7th street Wharf and Cor, 12th and Pa. gva. <urious house-owners | C4"pet rather than in the center. In these hur- | '8 proper in dress, together with the habit of ———— Sealed Proporals will be received at this office until Fold them stil closer to thy breast, ELVE O'CLOCK on the TWENTY-NINTH DAY TW EN - y OTICE. 1 days it seems absurd to talk of homemade | Conforming to the same, gives an appearance of And soothe their childish woe, Reveral tn bottiea easks of the | QF MAY, 1882, and opened immediately thet N sag. orants of these latter days could but | Carpets yet carpets have been made by indies elegance In no other way to be acquired, and ts | andearor the manglonely hours above, received direct. "It in now in fine condliton, | Bret Beet sn Veseiatien, Fun Brad and for Baking FOR POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS, that are marvels of patience and skill. “Carpets | the only way in which a man can learn to appear e Motherless must know. dei and agreeable. We think it will better | Navy Bread as may be required at the Navy Yard and > Ni Sdvance of those enjoyed by our ereat-grand-| s07 Pics for holy places, shrines and convents | at his best. We often bear men say, with the | ‘The World, with all ts hopes and joys, satisfaction than the miueh higher priced, imported. | Station at Weatinuton, D.C, during the eal year | ,OB and afte: No whact fosk of fuk mee pope pate ines ‘i Frais eatalany vead us to | ae often made by hand.’ In the exquisite chapel air of having conquered the seven deadly sins In Baca er tneeoeen Eiri Biank forms’ of offer, and all at 7am, ev HUBSDAY and RATUR: consid erected by a Russian Archduke in memory of his ell, 1 buy a suit of clothes and put wife, in Wiesbaden, there isa carpet which at C. WITMER's, as to specifications and ‘ery improvement ss lt came up, con- ’em on, and wear ’em ttl they are worn out.” Biieeeiate ana eee < having appeared at all be procured by applying to the Tnemector of Provisions and ONDAY aa far as jomini, Carrio Nomini Ferry. On URSDAY, S ~ Leonardtown and St. Clement's Bay, stone's 4 first’ sight looks exactly like a Turkish one, | One bows and smiles in the presence of such ex And ©, when time shiall calm thy grief, nad sl tN ee 4 es | Ee SATURDAY. Gurtiomad, favor of which was worked entirely by the ladies of the | alted virtue. and quietly makes a note that it Perchance the hour may come NOW WHITE BREAD AND BEAUTIFUL ROLLS | completion of the x 3 a SL aaoe. JOWN B. WOOD, Russi ourt, d which is large enough to | Were a better plan to buy two suits of clothes When thou wilt win another form and Biscuits wili be guaranteed if you use CERES, RICHARD WASHINGTO! o cover the entire floor of the chapel "2" ‘| and wear them’ alternately till they were halt Oe ae Was Sandel ae ee Brera eto Owe, which | _mil0-daw2w ___Pay Tuspector U. 8 NORFOLK AND NEW YORK STEAMERS, s. fres - ve . . Aw. = b i : hen thou wilt welcome to t 1 a SS rer SERY. * Spree Prep ial sth But while such an undertaking will hardly | Worn out, and then buy a third. Many men of tees tae ae Jornat the National Fair in 1879,"and acain the First | JROPOSALS FOR STATIONERY, pt commend itself to our busy women, there are é I repay the fashionable” that the world at large finds out | Certain efforts of the kind that will repay that li is absolutely indispensable to adopt | time bestowed upon them. For example, a them. Take, for example. the question pf | covering for the floor of the dining-room, which floors. Floors from ail azes must have been a | Certainly need not be carpeted all over, could be provi source of discomfort and expense, but | boime-made of coarse canvas, worked in tapes- genius,education, and the highest intellectual at- tainments are utterly indifferent to their personal appearance, and fancy this is a superior frame of mind to be in, while really it is no credit to them in the world. To be well dressed and in conformity with the usages of good society is a THE STEAMER LADY OF THE LEAR 2 wil leave her wharf, foot of 6th street, every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY, at 5:30.0'c'k p.m. touch of a very handsome gold medal, millers claim that one barrel of forty loayes more bread than any otuer flour in America. STERLING ST. LOUIS FANOY, oue of the most beautiful Winter-Wheat Patent Flours ever offered to the trade. It is mnexcelied by auy other Patent except Ceres, and will please the most ex- acting housekeeper and satisfy the most fastidious epi- hi 7 vel ion, and it is only after they have become | . And bid thy ehlidren smile on her Who takes their mother’s place. But think not, could I speak to thee, ‘That I would frown oF blame, ‘Though they should love the stranger one And call her by my name; DEPARTMENT oF THE Exrenron, . PRL 5 Sealed proposale will be received at this Departinet c 6 for the until 12 o'clock THURSDAY, May 18, fiscal year ending Jnne 30, 1883. sho Point, Point Lockout and Fortress itonrs CTING AT NORFOLK WITH THE BOSTOR ND PROVIDENCE 8TEAMERS, jonroe me. furnishing Stationery forthe Department of rior during Biank forms of proposals, the items and en- wing RELIANC| plendi esata Ps timat antites requit F with circular re- i @ for the Istest civiiation to | tFY stitch in some arabesque design in contrust- | thousand fold mo e creditable, and people who | Aad call her by my name; | tundo by the celebrated Huoparian Protas Tries orcs | {stings tocreao oil be raealabel on aprinetinn totais Fire clase fare to Piney Point and Point Lookout. 2°50 s reserved for the Intest civilization to | {r¥ stitch in some a affect the contray are generally actuated more My memory Is thelr trust, | cheap and beantiful Patent, within the reach of ali tment. econd-Clase fare to Piney Politand Pot Loren, as conceive {ire dea of covering them up in such | "Eastern rage vary @ good deal in etyle. Those | by vanity than superior sense. A word, a smile, a look Ike mine, | csssen ana We euaraptce will give natstacton toeeery | Hropesais must be, addrewel to the Sccrvtary. of | Sasond-c atand Point Lockout Strom: naan to uncover them ‘wean “Garvets | fFom India are usually somber in color and of | , At this particular thne browns, greens, olive Will call me trom the dust. | sland by ana te Stasdlord Yisal Uy Fini of the Districe, | CFR. ey yey ee and SATUR mou tran to anoover them again. Carpi ‘ 7 browns and greenish olives are the coming col- ha to a 7 Patent fours. Thi ‘o contract wil! be awarded under this advertisement by por intricate and even confused design, while those wos and greenish ol he gC Yet make my grave no place of tears, | and equal to a creat many so-called Patent ‘The cin jement ~ the floor, stretched by main | vhich come from Turkey are bright and vivid in | 9'8. Grays have by no means passed out of But let the dear ones bring, | Millers or Manufacturers of GOLDEN HILL havespent iriation eball have ‘been inade by Con- | JOHN GIBSON and E. C. KNIGHT will resume their ml alles So, socurely, that ‘even | Tine and liave the Goeetimatio: movie ne ber | Savor, Dut olive and hrowal tints oro preferred about $10, 000 in remodeling their mill, and have in ‘hase aquake would have left them un- d. beeupe so popular that it required a ightened Frenchmen of the twelfth century would have looked upon the first importers of eastern carpets into Eu- h horror if they could have foreseen zed progression would ever have astace of devotion to them as to houses with thick, Immovable floor But the French, after all, have Rever a:iopted the absurd fashion to the same extent as their English neighbors, and there is obabitity that they ever will; and time has nied matters that even that conserva- the British matron, has left off taint- wrror at the idea of an uncarpeted bed Foom. Itis possible now for the most preju- diced of her kind to admit that there are advan- tages in painted and washed floors, and Little by little she has been weaned from abject adoration of Brussels, Kidderminster,and tapestry carpets. even on this side of the Atlantic, where pro- gressive ideas are more apt to flourish, the rec- egnition of the adyantazes of movable carpets has come very slowly, and it is only after some twenty years of discussion that common sense has gaiied the upper hand. that new houses are built especially with the view to the use of rugs, Squares and strips of carpeting. Before another 20 years shall have passed Bway we venture to predict that there will gearcely be a room in the city which will be covered from end to end and side to side with thick impenetrable carpet. Apart from all fash- fon and all theory, it will be recognized as a fact that health demands movable floor coverings, or. failing these, coverings which can be cleansed daily. The ancients understood this perfectly. Socrates waxed eloquent in describing what a Bouse sheuld be, how needful air and sunshine and cleanliness were for health, and imagination calls up the interiors of that time with their mo- saic pavements and the absence of all that would have harbored dust, and in doing so disease. The luxuricus native of the east, the inventor of carpets, never .ven in his most indolent mo- ments conceived the possibility of saving him- self the trouble of shaking his carpet by fixing ito the floor, and although we cannot credit him with any exalted ideas of cleanliness in his domestic arrangements, we must at least con- cede that he showed a good deal of common Sense in this respect. Tweaty-tive years ago physicians began to enter 2 protest against the enervation of modern es; thence they passed to detail; the more enlizhtened entered upon a sort of erusade against floor coverings. and declared that in- fectious diseases were harbored in the woolen hangines and carpets of their well-to-do patients quite as surely as amid the squalor and filth of Overcrowded alley From that time to thisa good deal of progress has been made. People Ro longer sleep (at least sensible people do not) in tur post bedsteads, with woolen curtains drawn closely round them; they are even recog- nizing the desirability of leaving their windows unincumbered with voluminous folds of velvet and of rep. and, going a stage further, they are beginning to realize that floors and their cover- ings are important factors in the question of iene. logs are certainly free from many of the most serious objections to carpets, even when they are fixed upon the floor, which in our estimation they never ought to be. It is possible to wash Well all around them, to remove the dust from the c of the room, and even under the edves of the rug itself. But such a condition of affairs still far from satisfactory. There is always more or less dirt about a stationary car- . in any room that is much lived in, and the house maids jn the world cannot rid an immovable rug of dust as readily on the floor as they could off pets ought, as a matter of health, to be taken up once a week, laid over a Hine and thoroughly beaten, but where is the household where this rule is enforced? We are apt to think ourselves very much in advance of the Germans in matters of household comfort, and yet it is a question whether any house in New York is as stri clean as that of a Retable German haus-frau, whose house floors are daily wiped over with a wet “lumpen,” and waxed once a week. Close-fitting carpets were stuxury almost unknown in her country until ‘ranco-Prussian war. and their adop- tion Into general use for the best room has by RO means all the advantage she may suppose. The growing conviction of the superiority of Tugs to carpets is shown in the newest houses, in many of which the floors are expressly ar- ranged with stained borders, a parquet floor- ing, which it is possible to leave entirely uncov- ered. What a boon this is to persons of small means? Nothing eats into a small sum of money for house-furnishing more disastrously than a carpet. It is useless to bay a cheap one; cheap carpets are never of any use, and the price of a geod one is a tormidable consideration. This is another argument in favor of rags—cheap rugs wear a creat deal better than cheap carpets, for the obvious reason that they are not palled and strained in evi direction, and are only sub- Jected to legitimate wear and tear. The question of colored floors is a debatable | ene. It must be admitted that for living rooms | or rooms in which there is much passing to and fro, painted floors are not all one could wish. First, they are noisy: secondly, they show every mark, and after a little wear have a scratched and worn appearance. which is disheartening. Even with constant care, rubbing and washing, it is dient to keep a colored floor as nicely as one would wish, and, moreover, it has a cold and desolate appearance if entirely uncovered. A square rug oF carpet, with a bordering, is a decided improvement upon the bare boards, and this, in living rooms, should certainly be large enough to come within half a yard of the walls all over the room, and be heavy enough to be flat without being nailed. The most de- sirable floorings for all purposes are unques- tlonably those of wood carpetings and tiles, Dat comparatively few persons are fortunate to possess them, and. unless they are owners of houses, are not willing to go to the ex- pense of having them laid. But decidely, for entries, halis and lobbies, it is worth while to do so, even if long residence in the house is not enticipated, and in rooms where such an ex- is not deemed possible a bordering of this , ash or other hard woods cemented on to mustin, and can be roiled up and removed with the greatest ease. Another advantaze about them is that they are of the ickness as an ordi carpet, and no more under doors, etc.” The ing makes & portable flor, but this considetation has little Weight, as a carpeting that will suit one house or room will not sult another, and the expense of acomplete covering for a floor 1s great, especially as the addition of rags is absolutely mecessary if it isto look comfortable. Unless a full of furniture it dees not elt with several small rugs laid about in directions. ‘on, for how- of loose floor coming more valuable after they have been-worn. It is dificult to distinguish between those made in Turkey and those brought from Persia. They are rarely imitated with any success, but the Smyrna rugs, known in the trade as Oushak, are of such strong colors and striking designs that it is often difticult to detect imitations. “As arale they have deep crimson or bright scarlet centers, with geometrical markings and borders in which every shade of color is harmoniously blended. Some few of them, generally the smaller ones, are of less decided coloring, and a fashion has lately been introduced of covering staircases with them, a rug the exact width of each stair ad re- | hunting for him, and they met face to being kept’ in place by a brass rod across either end. Itis difficult to see what object can be gained by this innovation, unless it be that of novelty, for velvet pile stair carpets answer the same purpose as far as deadening sound is con- cerned. and look a great deal better if sufficient margin Is left at either side; stairways covered without this margin never look well, a reflec- tion which may solace those whose purse is Iim- ited and to whom wide stair carpets are denied. There is, indeed, an obvious compensation tor the multitudes with limited incomes in the fact that the harmony and comfort of a home do not really depend 0 much upon money as people suppose. It is an unpleasant fact certainly that a good carpet costs a guod deal, but then 18 it not a mitigating circumstance that a little of it is as fashionable, looks better and is decidedly cleanlier and healthier than a great deal. There is additional consolation in the fact that a floor partially covered. with rugs is infinitely more useful in showing up furniture than the hand- somest carpet that ever left the loom. Such a reflection should reconcile us even to the scratches on a dark-stained floor, and all things considered it is useless to lighten the purse or burden the mind with extensive floor coverings when the home will look just as well with rags, and when every consideration of health requires that they should be done away with. ——— eee REJECTED AT THE ALTAR. An Unexampled Scene in an English Church. The following story, which {s vouched for, differs from the ordinary to such an extent that we print it, under the impression that it has never been published before. The story goes that a certain Dean of Chester, England, was called upon to perform the wedding ceremo- nial for a pair of happy lovers. The position of both parties was of the highest rank, and the guests who were bidden to the church were of the most fashionable and exalted. The day arrived, and with it the hour. The edifice was packed and all was in readiness. The Dean, expectant, awaited, the coming of the bride, and the groom with his best man was in the vestry. The hours passed on and still the bride did not arrive. After a long delay she drove up to the church door, and with her bridesfhaids swept up the large middie aisle towards the altar. in the meanthne the groom advanced to ineet her, and receiving her half way escorted her to the Dean. After the vpening words of exhortation, the Dean turned to the man and asked him the usual set question whether he would have the woman for his wedded wife, &e.. &c., to which he answered, “I will.” The question being in turn asked of the woman, to the astonishment and amazement of all she distinctly said, look- ing the groom in the face, ‘I will not The next instant she said in a low voice, “Mr. Dean, no one can more regret the words I have just uttered than myself, and if you will dismiss the congregation and take me into your vestry room, I will apologize, and at the same time Sally and satisfactorily explain what may seem to all my strange conduct.” The Dean, seeing that she was in truth earnest, In a few words dismissed the bewildered congrega- tion and directed the bridegroom to await him. The congregation having departed, and the lady and Dean being together, she sald, “I can- not tell you how badly I feel.’ I had loved my fiance truly and devotedly, and had looked forward to a life of perfect happiness and joy. This morning, as you know, I was late at my marriage ceremony; but it was not through any fault of mine. I arrivedas soonas could. In- stead of receiving looks of love and words of full happiness from my future husband, he par- alyzed my beating heart by saying, when he met me half way is hay aisle: “G—— d— you! if you expect to begin life this way by keeping me waiting for you, you will find out after you are my wife!’ My decision was instaatly made. I have been told that sooner than suffer unhap- piness through my own actions, it were better to renounce even at the altara union that would bring misery and grief thereafter. Had Iturned back he would have followed me; there would have been a scene, and he might have penne me to return and marry him. It also might have looked like temper, and I had fully time during your few words of prayer to make up my mind. I know that I have disappointed friends, my family, but no one more than myself. Do not ask me to reconsider my late action. In- form my would-have-been husband of my deter- mination, and let me go.” The Dean, seeing she was resolved. could not but approve, and gently led her through the church to her anxious parents, not as a smiling wife, but as a woman whose present is shattered and whose futare is blighted. ‘The Church Militant. From the Detroit Free Press. One summer in the yeara agone, while a camp meeting was in progreas in Eaton county, there arrived on the grounds a bully named Miller, who had made a vow to lick Elder Johnson and break up the whole business. The elder heard the news with calm composure, andas soon as at iberty he hunted up a worldly friend of his owa, and asked: “Friend Smith, didn’t you used to fight in your younger days?” “Abt Elder, I have had many a turn with the boys.’ “And what is the effect of a sudden blow be- tween the eyes?” “it astonishes and humbles.” pis here any danger of kilting » man by such w?"? ‘Never knew a case of it.” ‘The Elder went his way with a serene smile on bis face. Milier had his coat off and they tarned a wagon. Miller started to his beels ans crow, but he never finished. E:der took him one square between the look- ers without stopping his pace, and it t twelve rowdies, three dippers of water, and two quartsef whiskey to revive the patient and get center of the floor | by lightning; but I've always had a poms, heavy furni- | that provision im in favor him off the grounds. One day, a year after- igre Poe: met ae and seriously asked: “Elder, some boys say I was kicked a horse, and others stick to it that Twas suspicion hit me with a stand. was how?” by those who lead the fashions. Between these leading colors there are numberless intermedi- ate and intermingled colorings. There was a few years ago no medium between plain dark goods and “high fancies.” Now their nameis Jeglon. The favorite worsted diagonals are shown in stripes, pin checks, plaids, square blocks, large and small, and in colorings which combine green, brown, red, bine, black, and olive, but so cleverly harmonized asto have the appearance, at a little distance, of solid colors. The old style wale has been changed to a varlety of weaves representing the corkscrew and the Barathea or ribbed diagonal, the effect of which is excellent. The groundwork of most -of the combination colorings is diagonal, and at a distance the tints biend into a solid color. Tailors who follow English styles recommend Berlin worsted or pin checks for summer suits to take the place of cheviots and flannels. which look so awfully “ready-made, you know.” These worsteds are in the finest wool, of black and white and brown and white alternate dots no bigger than a pin’s head, which blend into one light color, and look cool and (ahem!) genteel. Thisis the sort af- fected by young men who can afford to pay $75 for a summer suit, for a material that cannot be imitated in cheap goods. Striped trouserings are In great favor. They come in peice varying from the invisible to the distinctively marked, and the former have fonnd much favor with conservative people. A fancy cashmere vest, striped trousers and dark coats are much affected by well dressed Net Yorkers. Cincinnati men incline to th dark coat and vest en suite, and the striped trousers. In these latter garments the change from loose to tight is recognized by all classes, though the extremely tight fitting trousers are accepted by comparatively few. This fashion of trousers differing from the rest of the suit is the result of the present close style. for one coat and vest easily outlast two pairs of trousers, from the tendency of the latter to get “baggy” at the knees, a circumstance which causes the average young man of fashion more uneasiness than the condition of his bank account. We are confidentially informed by a society man, the “set” of whose clothes are the envy and despair of a wide circle of admirers, that the only way to prevent their bagginess, which has been a cause of anguish to three continents, “our continent” and the eastern and wes. tern Hemispheres generally, is to give the trous- ers a little hitch at the knee when you sit down, and under no circumstances to crook the preg- nant hinges of the knee too much when seated, but to leave the nether limbs extended in a not ungraceful fashion. Eternal vigilance is the price of more things than liberty, and a mo- ment’s forgetfulness will be fata!, for the cloth once stretched and molded by the shape of the knee, not all the pressing, sponging, and block- ing of every tailor’s goose on Vine street can undo the mischief. You will be suspected of a desire to show your neat over-gaiters and your olive or cardinal lisle thread hose, and heedless people will stumble over your outstretched imbs, but you will be sustained by that con- sciousness that nerved Virginius to strike the fatal blow, and say with him: There 1s no way but this. Much of course depends upon the material, certain elastic cloths being quite unfit for trou- serings, and much depends upon the cutter. The careful man measures from hip to knee and from knee to foot, and locates the knee at the exact point. The careless man measures the length of the leg and supposes the knee to be “there or thereabouts.” Most depends upon the maker, the handicrattsman who sews the garment. He can make or mar; if in putting the pants together he slips one side up or down pi lank ofan inch, the whole garment is out of lance. Naturally but few men do this fineand careful work, and they command their price, and the buyer must pay it. You can have a coat made by a “$5 man” ora “$12man.” The difference in the appearance of the garments cut from the same cloth, and made by the two men, is just the difference between a well dressed man and his shabby neighbor. _ Always suppos- ing the first cost can be afforded, the wise man has his clothes made by a master workman. In the cut of all coats a tendency to shorter waists and smaller sleeves is noticeable, and customers favor the change, especially men who go in tor a style when it first comes out. But these ultra fashionables are not the men who give best support to the business, and so the tailors move slow, and present modified styles to catch the solid men. The single and double breasted cutaway are the popular style for business coats, though sack coats are by no means in disfavor. The cutaway (single breasted four button) can be made to answer the double purpose of a high or low roll, but the style continues to wear all garments closing high. It is cut with a narrow shoulder, nar- row side body, short waist, long skirt and small sleeve. The vest is single breasted, without a collar, cut to close high, short and straight at bottom. The new sack coat traces the form of the body without any loose cloth. This close fitting body calls for a close sleeve and a nar- row shoulder, cut to fit without wadding, and the more sloping appears the better the men like it. The fashionable length for a man five feet eight would be about twenty-nine or thirty inches. They are usually made from suitings where the coat, trousers and yest are made of the same material, The vest is short and the trousers to order. The edges of these coats are either braided flat or double stitched one quar- ter of an inch between the rows. The walking coat is also known as a morning Tames. “Th best tylia stngle Breasts, costa names. The is , closing with five buttons, Intended to be worn with one or all buttons closed, and is but little cut away. The tendency is to shorter w: and longer skirts, thor @ happy medium is just now pre- served. It is m liked by men who never wear ultra cutay but like a garment grace- ful and elegant. is sult has single breasted vest, either with or without collar, medium cut trousers, and is generally of the same cloth throughout, but cbnaidered in good style with — trousers. he fashionable “top coat” is a fly front and The front is soft, To cheer their mother's lonely home, ‘The blossoms of the Spring. And even there thou tov mayst kneel, And softly press the earth That covers her whose smile once gave ‘A brightness to thy hearth. ‘Then will the forms of early years Steal softly to thy side, And for an hour thou canst forget ‘Thou hast another bride. She may be all thy heart ean ask, So dear, so true to thee, But O! thie Spring-time of thy love, Its freshness was for me. May she be blest who comforts thee, And with a gentle hand Still ruide the little trembling ones Who make our household band. She cannot know the tenderness ‘That fills their mother’s breast, But she can Jove them ror tny sake, And make thee more than blest. Yet keep one place, one little place, From all the rest apart, One spot whick I will call a “home” Within thy faithful heart; And in the holy hours of dreams, When spirits fill the air, With tender eye and folded wing Til softly rest me theie. May God forgive this erring love ‘That Is to mortals given— It almost woos my spirit back From happiness and heaven. And yet I reel tt will not die When this frail life ts o'er, But watch till all my loved ones come Where we shall part no more. —+o-— A Brave Woman. In the Woman's Journal, “T. W. H.” relates the story ofa New Hampshire woman, who by the sudden loss of her little invested property had remaining only an oid farmhouse and some land. ‘The sufferer was wholly alone in the world, had a paralyzed arm, and was threatened with blindness. The only work which her en- feebled condition permitted was in the way of knitting and making artificial flowers; by these two arts she could earn $15 annually.” Her whole available income was $40. She appro- priated one-fourth of it for reading. In her own very interesting account of her life she says: In very cold spells I took a warm freestone and crawled into bed., Iwas too ill to work, and thus to do saved firewood. I would put mittens on my hands and read awhile, and when the room became to¢ cold for this, cover all up and think over what I had read. This saved me ina degree from-enervating myself still further by truitiess poring over poverty and privations.” As for food: “One-fourth pound of meal, one cent; one-foyrtn pound of dried beans, one and one half cents; two cents’ worth of salt pork—four and # half cents in all— would support mea day anda half very well. This was my usual fare three days out of seven. Three cents’ wore of barley, boiled with two cents’ worth of butcher's trimmings and three cents’ worth of potatoes, would make wholesome, nourishing food for two days and go a long way toward supporting ex- istence. * * * I made a considerable use of rice and baked fish. In cool weather a pound of oatmeal cooked Monday would serve as des- sert through the week. Sometimes I had a gift of milk, and then I feasted like an epicure. Now and then I had some kind of a vegetable, as a beet or a turnip, and from time to time bought a few cents’ worth of butchers’ scraps, more to season food than to be food. * * * Once a month I indulged ina baking of doughnuts, or got a pound of jard and fried an eating of doughnuts, about six, one at a time, in a tin cup over ny oil stove.” The contrivances for clothing were curi- ous. The writer says: ‘There could be no reduc- tions beyond hers, for she literally bouzht nothing in the way of clothing whatever. So she lived, so to speak, on the past—on the wrecks of her own clothing and other people’s. She made a whole suit out of an old straw-bed ticking, combined with the fragments of a pair of the drilling over- alls that some workmen had left on the premises; these she cut into strips, and made, she declares, a very stylish trimming. She unravelled old, worn-out, home-spun under-garments,and made yarn which she knit into stockings. She had fifteen mottoes in the house made on white mus- lin and cotton flannel; these she hoiled cleanand hada supply of material for under-garments, being the first person, probably, who discovered areal use for ‘mottoes.’ She found behind a closet door an old overcoat of her father’s. out of whose quilted lining. of black lasting she made for herself a cloak that looked like quilted satin. The question of hats o bonnets was easily settled; she wore none for three years. As for shoes, the inexhaustible lining of the father’s overcoat provided her with slippers which wore better than leather.” ee ge eee Sitver JEWELRY has taken or been given another freak of extraordinary eccentricity. Silver is now fashioned to represent spiders and members of the bug family not only in form, but in color, and very beautiful they are, if bugs possess that characteristic. The report that de- votees to fashion are wearing live blue-bottles, cockroaches and June bugs on hats and bonnets, where they are chained and allowed the tree- dom of the surface, is considered an unreliable one, and without any foundation. Still, it is maintained that in New York, or at least in Spain, which is too far away to allow us to in- vestigate, this freak of fashton ts to be seen. If any one wishes an ornament of this kind, there is no lack of accommodation. If a skilled man with a lasso will call upon us, we will put him on the track of some long-leggers alt v ebon- ized and polished. It may not be easy to finda Jeweller to mount them, unless he hasridden a oie or a mustang taken wild from the ins. Silver ornaments have taken other forms true to nature. Flowers and leayes are formed in natural colors. Their com; ive inex} ive- ness and beauty make them favorites with many buyers. But this kind of baying 1s hindered by the weather. They bl tpe sescwd fitting on new suits, and as such sults are to be these ornaments will add and be added to. 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